Adam McNeil

Adam Xavier McNeil is an Assistant Professor of American Studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. McNeil is a historian of the American Revolution, with a focus on Black women's experiences in the Revolutionary and Founding Eras. He is currently writing his first monograph, Contested Liberty: Fugitive Women and the Shadow of Reenslavement and Displacement in Revolutionary Virginia, under contract with the University of Virginia Press. Contested Liberty is the first book to analyze Afro-Virginian women’s pursuit of freedom during the American Revolution. McNeil's scholarly contributions can also be found as a co-host of both New Books in African American Studies and New Books in Revolutionary America, podcasts platformed by the New Books Network.

 

Before coming to Notre Dame, McNeil was a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer at the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. McNeil also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Black Military Studies and previously held leadership positions in the Association of Black Women's Historians and the African American Intellectual History Society.